Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)

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This notice concerns the award of the contract for Cellular Electron Microscopy Equipment. The Astbury BioStructure Laboratory (ABSL) at the University of Leeds has awarded a contract for four instruments to perform correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) and electron microscopy of cells and tissues. These instruments are: — A high-pressure freezer to allow rapid freezing of large and/or labile specimens whilst minimizing structural deformation, — And a freeze-substitution unit for low-temperature substitution of water by dehydrating agents and fixatives, — A cryo-ultramicrotome, for room-temperature and cryo-sectioning of samples for (cryo-)EM imaging, — And a cryo-CLEM system, to image cryo-fixed samples by fluorescent microscopy, identifying interesting biological events for further analysis at high-resolution by cryo-EM. — One high-pressure freezer. 1 x Freeze Substitution Unit 1 x Ultramicrotome 1 x Cryo-Light Microscope